Vampirella: Armageddon #6 // Review
She’s going to have to contact her mother. She can feel the darkness in her growing and she’s going to need to rtalk to her mother in order to get it stragithened out....or at least to gain somee insight into what it is that she’s dealing with in Vampirella: Armageddon #6. Writer Tom Sniegoski and artist Edu Menna continue a literal journey through Hell with one of the more appealing ant-heroes to have come out of the comics in the past several decades. Color comes to the page courtesy of Adriano Augusto. It’s a well-constructed issue featuring paired plots that work well together.
Vampirella’s mother is Lilith--the first ever woman according to some texts. She rejected the position given to her by God and things didn’t really work out for her from there. They had been a little coplicated from there. Ans so if anyone can help Vampirella out with her darkness, it’s her mother. Of course...the fact that she’s dead is a bit of a complication. And the fact that it’s all in a dream is going to be even more of a complication in Hell. And then there’s also a group of people trying to break INTO Hell who are going to have problems of their own...
Sniegoski weaves the story quite well between those trying to get into hell and the title character who is dealing with being there. It's a nice combination. It's a nice pairing. And the two different dynamics work well together, even though they're not directly linked in the script. It's pretty remarkable that the size of the ensemble is as big as it is. Because it doesn't really feel like it is. There's a lot going on. There's a lot going on for a lot of individual people. The writer manages to juggle it all in a way that makes it feel very breezy.
Likewise, Menna does a remarkably good job of making sure that everything is where it needs to be visually. Things could be very cluttered on the page if an artist wasn't really conscious of making sure that every single individual in the ensemble has his or her own presence on the page. Menna does a really good job of developing this. It's actually kind of impressive how well articulated everything is given the fact that it could all look like a blurry wallpaper of the damned without the right kind of personality.
My story doesn't seem nearly as inspired as it could be. But that's not really a problem. Because it's entertaining. There is a lot of potential and really exploring. The deeper nature of the theme is being explored in hell. That potential isn't really reached here. That's too bad. But it's not really a serious problem because it's really just very entertaining throughout. It's a fun story. It's a fun supernatural horror concept. And that's all it really needs to be. It would be nice if it had a bit more thematic depth to it, though.
